Gigabyte hints Coffee Lake-H notebooks coming in March

Those looking to upgrade to a notebook that packs a bit more punch might be in luck as Gigabyte has hinted that Coffee Lake-H CPUs might come by the end of March, which is pretty much in line with the recently leaked slides.

The replacement for Intel's Kaby Lake-H chips, including the popular Core i5-7440HQ or the Core i7-7700HQ, the Core i7-7820HK and the high-end Core i7-7920HQ, should be coming by the end of March, or according to the recently leaked slide, "early in Q2 2018".

In case you missed it, the Core i7-8850H is a six-core part with Hyper-Threading and 2.6GHz base and 4.3GHz Turbo clocks. The Core i5-8400H will remain a quad-core part but it did get Hyper-Threading support and works at the 2.5GHz base and 4.2GHz Turbo clocks.

There is also the rumored Core i9-8950HK CPU which also has six-cores and twelve threads and works at the 2.9GHz base and 4.8GHz Turbo CPU clocks but has a 45W+ TDP and could go in some of those high-end gaming notebooks.

The leaked post from Gigabyte's tech support team, which was posted at Reddit, suggested that while the original Aero 15X is no longer available, a new model with refreshed Intel 8th gen CPU will be available by the end of March or early April 2018, which lines up with a leaked slide.

While Intel also launched its Kaby Lake-G CPUs with Radeon RX Vega M IGP, these still have a higher TDP of 65W-100W, leaving a good market share for Coffee Lake-H SKUs.